scene: Hannibal writes a sad song
Will: "You're moving smoothly and slowly, Jack. Carrying your concentration like a brimming cup."
Jack: "Hannibal Lecter was almost murdered... by an employee of this hospital. An attendant who we believe is the person that... killed the bailiff and the judge at your murder trial."
Will: "He killed the bailiff, he didn't kill the judge. That was the Chesapeake Ripper."
Jack: "You know this?"
Will: "He told me."
Jack: "Then you told him to kill Hannibal."
Will: "Nothing I said made that happen, Jack. It just happened. It just happened."
Jack: "You don't seem to be too broken up about it."
Will: "There's a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named. The happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt."
Jack: "You feel contempt for Hannibal?"
Will: "Well, I have contempt for the ripper. I have contempt for what he does."
Jack: "And what does he do?"
Will: "What does he do? What is the first and principal thing he does? What need does he serve by killing?"
Jack: "He harvests organs."
Will: "No, that's only the action of what he does. Why does he need to do it? The ripper kills in sounders of three or four in quick order. Do you know why? I know why."
Jack: "Then tell me."
Will: "Because if he waits too long, then the meat spoils."
Jack: "He's eating them? Hannibal is like Garrett Jacob Hobbs? A cannibal?"
Will: "No, not like Garrett Jacob Hobbs. Hobbs ate his victims to honor them; the ripper eats his victims because they're no better to him than pigs."
Jack: "With the exception of Beverly Katz, there is no connection between Hannibal and any ripper victims."
Will: "No immediate connection."
Jack: "Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper."
Will: "If the ripper's killing, you can bet Hannibal Lecter's planning a dinner party. You and I probably sipped wine while swallowing the people to whom we were trying to give justice, Jack. Who does he have to kill before you open your eyes?"
Hannibal: "A remarkably lean organ, the heart, yet such a potent symbol of life... and the things that make us human. Good and bad, love and ache."
Alana: "All of them skewered."
Hannibal: "It's a thematic dish. My heart certainly feels skewered."
Alana: "You have the scars to prove it."
Hannibal: "It feels as if that noose is still around my neck. Strange having nightmares; I never used to."
Alana: "Don't make the same mistake I've made; being your own psychiatrist. I'm always assessing my feelings instead of acting on them."
Hannibal: "It's the safest course."
Alana: "You have to find a way to deal with what happened to you."
Hannibal: "I'm metabolizing the experience by composing a new piece of music. Stravinsky said a true composer thinks about his unfinished work the whole time. He's not always conscious of this, but he's aware of it when he suddenly knows what to do."
Alana: "And do you know what to do?"
Hannibal: "I need to get my appetite back."
Jack: "There is a pattern taking shape. I just have to convince my eyes to see it.
Hannibal: "I've convinced myself of something I had refused to see for a long time."
Jack: "And it only took Will Graham trying to kill you to see it?"
Hannibal: "Yes. I can't help Will. I can't trust him. He's in a dark place where the shadows move and it's not safe to stand with him anymore."
Jack: "I feel the same way. We, um... found another ripper victim..."
Hannibal: "I'm sorry, Jack. I can't. Not only do I have to let Will go; I have to let this all go. I nearly died. I would have, if it weren't for you. I'm sorry, but I can't dwell on death anymore."
Jack: "I don't blame you."
Hannibal: "We both have to transform our misfortunes into life enhancing events."
Will: "You should've let him die. He's gonna kill you, you know."
Abel: "Can't get me in here."
Will: "No, here is exactly where he'll get you, Abel. The moment I convinced the chief of staff to put you in a cell next to me, you were stamped with an expiration date. Anyone who gets too close gets got. He's the devil, remember? Smoke. I'd be very nervous if I was Dr. Chilton. He's getting close too. The only way you and Frederick are gonna get out of this alive is if the Chesapeake ripper is stopped. Hannibal Lecter deserves to die."
Abel: "You didn't bring me here to help you kill Hannibal Lecter."
Will: "No, I didn't; I brought you here to bear witness."
Abel: "To tell Jack Crawford that I sat in Hannibal Lecter's cobalt blue dining room, an ostentatious herb garden with leda and the swan over the fireplace and you having a fit in the corner. That's where I asked him if he was the Chesapeake Ripper, and he avoided the question and suggested I kill Alana Bloom."
Will: "Yes. Tell Jack that."
Abel: "I'll tell Jack Crawford everything if you tell me why Hannibal did it."
Will: "Because he wanted to see what would happen."
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Abel: "Frederick's in mortal danger and you want an apology from me?"
Will: "I don't want an apology. I want you to know you made a mistake. Only this way you and Frederick are going to get out of this alive is if the Chesapeake Ripper is stopped."
Abel: "Trying to find your taste for it?"
Will: "Taste for what? Blood?"
Abel: "Doesn't sit well on your palette, does it? Like copper on your tongue. Not your flavor."
Will: "Hannibal Lecter deserves to die."
Abel: "I tried to save a severely-burned patient once with grafts of someone else's skin. That skin seemed to agree with the man. For a few days. And then it withered and died."
Will: "Wanting to kill Hannibal Lecter is just a phase? Permanent solution to a temporary problem?"
Abel: "Wearing someone else's skin doesn't always work. Our immune system recognizes it as foreign, kills it. I recognize what is you and what is not you. You didn't bring me here to help you kill Hannibal Lecter."
Alana: "Well, the one thing I have clarity on is Will Graham tried to kill Hannibal."
Jack: "And thinks it was a righteous act."
Alana: "Well, that says more about Will than it does about Hannibal. Hannibal's been a teacher, a mentor, and a friend. I've known him before you or Will or any of this."
Jack: "I don't claim to know anyone."
Alana: "I look at these dogs, I see the best part of Will. But he's lying. He's manipulating. He's playing a game and he's not scared, not anymore. That's what's making him dangerous."
Will: "Hello, Dr. Lecter."
Hannibal: "I feel like I've been watching our friendship on a split screen. The friendship I perceived on one side and the truth on the other."
Will: "It's a terrible feeling, isn't it?"
Hannibal: "You've been lying to me, Will."
Will: "Well, I... I don't have a gauge for reality that works well enough to know if I've been lying."
Hannibal: "But you understand the reality of Beverly Katz's death. You understand your role in that."
Will: "What was my role?"
Hannibal: "Beverly died at your behest. You are as angry with yourself as you are with whoever murdered her."
Will: "Actually... I am singularly angry with whoever murdered her."
Hannibal: "You tried to kill me, Will. It's hard not to take that personally. However, if I were Beverly's murderer... I'd applaud your effort."
Will: "Oh, I'm no more guilty of what you've accused me of than you are of what I've accused you of."
Hannibal: "I don't expect you to feel self-loathing or regret, or shame. You knew what you were doing, and you made your own decisions, decisions that were under your control."
Will: "Oh, you think I'm in control?"
Hannibal: "I think you are more in control now than you have ever been. You found a way to hurt me. I wonder how many more people are going to get hurt by what you do. I'll give Alana Bloom your best. Goodbye, Will."
Zeller: "Put the heart monitor on the guard so no one knew Gideon was missing, at least as long as it took for the guard to die, which wasn't long."
Jack: "It was long enough."
Price: "He was strung up with fish hooks. Hand-tied flies, just like Will Graham used to make. This one has a human hair in it, and a tooth."
Zeller: "Jack, there is no way Gideon could've done any of this with the injuries he had, much less get out of bed."
Jack: "Well, the last time Gideon escaped custody, he went looking for the Chesapeake Ripper. He found him, all right. Last night... The ripper found Gideon."
Alana: "Not that... this wasn't... funeral sex or..."
Hannibal: "Of course it was. We both just buried a friend. We buried Will. There's something liberating about finally letting him go. Yes. There is."
Abel: "Hard to have anything, isn't it, Dr. Lecter? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. A damn slippery life."
Hannibal: "You were determined to know the Chesapeake Ripper, Dr. Gideon. Now is your opportunity."
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Zeller: "The Chesapeake Ripper has been tying flies with people, just like Will Graham allegedly did. Hair woven into the mono filaments is Beverly's; bone fragments of Miriam Lass; veining from Sheldon Isley, uh, optical nerve and arteries from Judge Davies, and a toenail from James Gray, our muralist. All victims of the Chesapeake Ripper."
Price: "These four lures are almost identical to what we found in Will's house, made with material from the exact same human remains: Abigail Hobbs, Donald Sutcliffe, Marissa Schuur, Georgia Madchen."
Jack: "Will didn't kill any of these people. There was no copycat, never was. It was always the ripper. Finally taking credit for all of his murders."
